MARD to protest against non-receipt of salary

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December 25, 2018

The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) is protesting as around 1,000 resident doctors from various medical colleges in the state have not received their salary for the past two months. The Mumbai-based MARD has planned to come out in support of these resident doctors by selling fruits in the Sion Hospital campus around 10am on Tuesday.

Resident doctors from Aurangabad’s Gover-nment Medical College have already started selling fruits on the streets to protest pending payment of their stipend. Resident doctors from these government-run medical colleges have not been paid their stipend since the past 50 days.

Dr Abdul Vakil Khan, MARD president, Aura-ngabad, said, “The doctors are scapegoats for the patients’ kin’s anger. But we are still working as we did not want the health of the poor patients to be affected.”

“We have started our protest Monday. All resident doctors are wearing a black ribbon as a token of protest. We are penniless since we are far away from our houses; we eat outside and depend on dry fruits for our health,” he said.

Dr Pravin Shingare, director, state Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), said, “I have to probe the issue. We won’t keep it pending.”

One detained with fake ID card at Pune AFMC

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December 25, 2018

The Indian Army on Tuesday detained a trespasser in the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) campus.

The man identified as Syed Junaid Syed Akhtar was caught by the security personnel for possessing fake identity card of the AFMC campus and wearing an Army uniform.

During the initial investigation, the accused in a statement to police divulged that he had lied to his mother that he has got admission in AFMC. In order to prove his claim he got a uniform stitched and got some pictures clicked.

An interrogation is underway to ascertain if Akhtar has links with any terrorist organisations.

At least 18 bikes were gutted in fire in Thane, probe initiated

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December 25, 2018

As many as 18 motorcycles parked in Hanuman Nagar of Thane’s Panchpakhadi were gutted in a fire in the early hours of Tuesday. One nearby shop was also damaged as the flame from the burning bikes spread in the area.

The incident took place around 3 am when two-wheelers parked near ‘A’ wing of Hanuman society caught fire. A fire tender reached the spot immediately but could only manage to save one bike. No casualty has been reported so far. Personnel from Regional Disaster Management Cell rushed to the site to ascertain the cause of the fire. A case has been registered and the investigation is underway.

55-year-old woman dead, 4 injured after wall collapse due to cylinder blast in Thane

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December 25, 2018

A 55-year-old woman was killed and four others were injured when a wall of a house collapsed due to a gas cylinder blast in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Tuesday, an official said.

The cylinder exploded around 9.30 am in a single storey house in Panchpakhadi area following which one of its walls collapsed on an adjacent house, Thane civic body’s regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.

Kantibai Wankhede, who resided in the adjacent house, suffered serious injuries in the wall collapse mishap. She was rushed to the civil hospital where doctors declared her dead, he said. Besides, four occupants of the house in which the cylinder exploded, including two women and a 12-year-old boy, received burn injuries and they were undergoing treatment at the same hospital, he added.

2 main accused arrested in Beed ‘honour killing’ case

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December 25, 2018

Two main accused in the suspected honour killing case of a 25-year-old man in Beed district of Maharashtra have been arrested, police said on Tuesday. The duo – Balaji Landge and Sanket Wagh – were nabbed on Monday in Amravati district of the state, a senior police official said.

With this, the number of those arrested in the case has gone up to three. The victim, Sumit Shivajirao Waghmare, a third year student at the Aditya Engineering College here, was stabbed to death by two men outside the educational institute on December 19, police had earlier said.

He had married a fellow student, Bhagyashree Landge, two months ago against the wishes of her family, according to the police. While Waghmare and his wife were coming out of the college after appearing for an exam, Bhagyashree Landge’s brother Balaji Landge and one more person confronted them and stabbed the couple before fleeing, police said.

Waghmare was later taken to the Beed Civil Hospital where he was declared dead while his wife suffered injuries, they had said. Police suspected that it was a case of honour killing as Bhagyashree Landge’s family was opposed to her marriage with Waghmare.

The arrests were made after photos and other information related to Balaji Landge and Sanket Wagh were sent to various police stations in Maharashtra, Beed Superintendent of Police (SP) G Shreedhar told reporters here. During the probe, the duo was traced to Amravati in eastern Maharashtra, he said.

“We sent our team to Amravati and both the men were nabbed from Badnera railway station there on Monday late night,” he said. Asked about suspicion that the accused were hiding in the house of a former minister in Aurangabad city, the SP said a search was conducted at the residence but the two men were not found there.

The Beed city police had earlier arrested a student, Krishna Kshirsagar, for his alleged involvement in the killing. According to the police, Kshirsagar, who is in his mid 20s, allegedly helped Balaji Landge flee after committing the crime.

Thane police arrests old aide of Dawood Ibrahim

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December 25, 2018

The Thane crime branch has arrested Mohammad Ahmad Khan Mahadik, an old aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, from Kausa, Mumbra. There are many cases such as murder, extortion and grievous hurt registered against Mahadik in various Mumbai police stations.

According to the police, the court released Mahadik on bail in 1997 and he had been absconding since then. To avoid the court process, he had made a fake passport in the name of Pathan Yusuf Khan Usman and fled to Muscat.

Earlier, crime branch officers got a tip-off that he returned to India along with his family and started residing at Amresh building at Kausa. After getting permission from higher officers, assistant police inspector Samir Ahirrao and his team kept an eye on him and confirmed his presence at the said address. After a few days, the police laid a trap and arrested him.

The police also seized his fake passport. Mahadik confessed that one Joseph had helped him to procure the fake passport. The police has registered an offence of making fake passport along with the previous offence.

The police has taken Mahadik into custody.

Gangster Pujari accused in Dawood’s kin Ismail murder, held after 22 years

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December 25, 2018

A 49-year-old gangster, who was absconding after getting bail in the murder case of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother-in-law Ismail Parkar 22 years ago, was arrested late Monday, police said.

Dayanand Salian alias Pujari, a member of the Arun Gawali gang, was arrested by the unit-7 of Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch after a trap was laid for him at Kanjurmarg in eastern suburbs, an official said.

Pujari was allegedly involved in serious crimes like murder and attempt to murder carried out at the behest of the Gawali gang, he said.

He was arrested by the Nagpada police in connection with the 1991 murder of Ismail Parkar, Ibrahim’s brother-in- law, he said.

Ismail Parkar was the husband of Hasina Parkar, Ibrahim’s sister, he said.

Pujari was arrested in 1993 and got bail in 1996, the official said.

He then fled the city and went to Uttar Pradesh, where he had been working as a cook under a fake name, the official said.

CM Fadnavis launches school named after former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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December 25, 2018

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday launched the Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Schools here on the occasion of 94th birth anniversary of the late prime minister. The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB), which the state government had set up with an aim to achieve higher education standards. Initially, 13 zilla parishad (ZP) schools would be part of this international board and the curriculum will be in the mother tongue, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said quoting Fadnavis on its official twitter handle.

Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, Maharashtra ministers Vinod Tawde, Pankaja Munde, Sadabhau Khot and computer scientist Dr Vijay Bhatkar were also present at the launch event. Vajpayee died in Delhi on August 16 this year after a prolonged illness. “Atalji worked hard to increase our growth rate in all sectors, especially education.

He always insisted on education of international standards in rural India. We, in Maharashtra, by targeted efforts and initiatives have now jumped up to the 3rd rank from 13th,” the CMO quoted Fadnavis as saying.

Fadnavis also said that his government improvised in the education sector with the same machinery, same teachers, in the same infrastructure, but “with innovative solutions”. He claimed the government was seeing reverse migration with many students from English medium schools returning to government-run ZP schools.

The international board will boost this trend, the chief minister added. “This is not a copy-paste curriculum but drafted by team of experts like Dr Vijay Bhatkar, Dr Kakodkar, Swaroop Sampat, Achyut Palav and many others. We are intervening just for capacity building, framing strategies and for providing whatever assistance is needed,” he said, referring to the board’s curriculum.

Resurgent Djokovic leads the way as old guard stays on top

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December 25, 2018

Next Gen poster boy Alexander Zverev’s season-ending Tour Finals triumph served up a glimpse into the future of men’s tennis although 2018 remained a year dominated once more by the usual, yet aging, suspects as a revitalised Novak Djokovic returned to the peak of his powers.

The Serb tumbled out of the top 10 for the first time in a decade and was ranked as lowly as 22nd in June, slumping to a string of uncharacteristic defeats — including an embarrassing loss to Italian journeyman Marco Cecchinato at the French Open — following elbow surgery to fix a lingering injury.

Over the next few months though Djokovic surged back to his all-conquering best, sweeping to Wimbledon and US Open crowns and completing a historic Masters sweep with an elusive victory in Cincinnati.

“There was always part of me that believed I could make it back and I never thought it was impossible,” Djokovic said of his climb back to world number one.

“It turned to out to be a perfect five months of the year, with two Grand Slam titles.” Roger Federer continued to defy his advancing years as he defended his Australian Open title and then eclipsed Andre Agassi as the oldest top-ranked player in ATP history, at the age of 36.

Rafael Nadal dominated in typical fashion on clay, swaggering to an 11th Roland Garros title, but the injury-plagued Spaniard limped out of two other Grand Slams before further fitness problems curtailed his season.

He played in just nine tournaments, his fewest since 2002, yet still won five titles and compiled a commanding 45-4 record.

Jadeja was fit when we selected him for Australia Tests: MSK Prasad

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December 25, 2018

Chairman of selectors MSK Prasad on Tuesday made it clear that his committee picked Ravindra Jadeja for the Test series based on the fitness report where he was declared absolutely fit.

Jadeja, who had a shoulder stiffness couldn’t feature in the second Test in Perth and coach Ravi Shastri told the mediapersons that the player was carrying the niggle from India.

Prasad however wanted to set the record straight on the eve of the Boxing Day Test, which will feature the Saurashtra all-rounder.

“On the eve of any selection meeting, the selection committee is given a fitness report of all the players. In that report, Jadeja was absolutely fit. So we picked him. After we picked him, he went and played Ranji Trophy also, where he bowled 60 overs. So there is no question of him being unfit at the time of selection (for Australia),” Prasad said.

“Whenever a health issue comes up, we have a group in which it is being placed. All that is looked after by the physio and they have very clearly given it in the statement,” he said.

On a different note, Prasad said that Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s return in the T20 squad for New Zealand tour was on expected lines as he was only rested for the six T20 Internationals against West Indies and Australia.

“With regard to MS, even while resting also, we categorically told that he was going to be rested for those six matches so that we an give more game-time to Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant. That is the very reason. Now they have played quite a few matches, so we thought that we should bring back MS into the squad,” Prasad reasoned, even though it is clear that Dhoni won’t be part of 2020 World T20 in Australia.

Prasad said the decision to drop Rishabh Pant from the ODIs against Australia and New Zealand was to keep him fresh for bigger battles ahead. He assured that the young keeper is still in scheme of things for the 2019 World Cup.

“With regards to Rishabh, given the intensity of this series that we are playing right now, so after this series, we want to keep him fresh. Give him a break and he will have a very good game-time of five matches against the visiting England Lions. Definitely a part of our World Cup plans (sic), Prasad said.

The chairman of selectors informed that from now on only 20 players will play till World Cup as they form the core.

“As promised, we said that coming closer to the World Cup, we are left with only 13 ODIs. It is more or less the core team. We have zeroed in on 20 members and only those 20 members will be figuring from now on, he signed off.